Deuteronomio 28:54

54 Aun el más tierno y sensible de tus hombres no tendrá compasión de su propio hermano, ni de la esposa que ama, ni de los hijos que todavía le queden,

Deuteronomio 28:54 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:54

[So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very
delicate
Not only the rustic that has been brought up meanly, and used to hard living; but one that has been bred very tenderly, and lived in a delicate manner, like the rich man in ( Luke 16:19 ) ; that fared sumptuously every day:

his eye shall be evil towards his brother, and towards the wife of his
bosom, and towards the remnant of his children which he shall leave;
that is, he shall begrudge his brother, who is so nearly related to him, the least bit of food; yea, his wife, he dearly loved, and is one flesh with him, his other self, and even his children, which are parts of himself, such of them as were left not eaten by him; or his eye should be evil upon then, he should look with an evil eye on them, determining within himself to kill and eat them next. Though the particular instance in which his eye would be evil to them follows, yet no doubt there are other instances in which his eye would be evil towards them, as there were at the siege of Jerusalem, and have been since. Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 says,

``that in every house where there was any appearance of food (or anything that looked like it, that had the shadow of it) there was a battle; and the dearest friends fought with one another, snatching away from each other, the miserable supports of life;''

as the husband from his wife and children, and the wife from her husband and children; see more in ( Deuteronomy 28:56 ) ; and, in later times, we told by the Jewish historian ^F3, that wrote an account of their sufferings and distresses since their dispersion, that at Fez the Jews sold their children for slaves for bread.

F2 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 3. sect. 3.
F3 Shebet Judah, sive Hist. Jud. p. 326.

Deuteronomio 28:54 In-Context

52 Te acorralará en todas las ciudades de tu tierra; te sitiará hasta que se derrumben esas murallas fortificadas en las que has confiado. ¡Te asediará en toda la tierra y en las ciudades que el SEÑOR tu Dios te ha dado!

53 »Tal será tu sufrimiento durante el sitio de la ciudad, que acabarás comiéndote el fruto de tu vientre, ¡la carne misma de los hijos y las hijas que el SEÑOR tu Dios te ha dado!

54 Aun el más tierno y sensible de tus hombres no tendrá compasión de su propio hermano, ni de la esposa que ama, ni de los hijos que todavía le queden,

55 a tal grado que no compartirá con ellos nada de la carne de sus hijos que esté comiendo, pues será todo lo que le quede.»Tal será la angustia que te hará sentir tu enemigo durante el asedio de todas tus ciudades,

56 que aun la más tierna y sensible de tus mujeres, tan sensible y tierna que no se atrevería a rozar el suelo con la planta de los pies, no tendrá compasión de su propio esposo al que ama, ni de sus hijos ni de su hijas.